There's been a lot of talk about the OLPC's cute little mesh networking laptop at Linux.conf.au this week. The foundation is taking its low-cost, robust laptop the XO to underprivileged kids around the world, but it's also funding its work by selling XO laptops to the public. The cool news from the LCA conference was that a local OLPC group is setting up in Australia to help get computers to kids across Australia.

Here's a short list of some games that could be played by your toddler and you can find in your friendly package manager.

I have spent the past four days on a short vacation in the Piedmont area of northwest Italy (beautiful landscape, wonderful people and excellent food!). This has given me the opportunity to make a "traveling test" of Linux on both of my laptops. During this trip I have tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE desktop), and Mandriva, and all three have performed extremely well.

The vacation feature allows you to configure a message that will be returned to the sender when you are out of the office. If you are using a CentOS version you will not find vacation in any repositories so you will have to compile it, which is not too difficult.

Novell's GNU/Linux distribution on H-P laptops falls short (compared to other GNU/Linux laptops)

Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums I stumble upon posts like Program X doesnt work under ubuntu Im leaving. As it turns out some of these posts are for the Source games mainly the multiplayer ones Counter Strike Source Day of Defeat Source Half Life 2 Deathmatch Team Fortress 2. For that purpose Im gonna make a short guide just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.

Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up. So If you want to teach your children to use Linux from an early age, Qimo is the perfect for your kids.

Qimo 2.0 Linux distribution based on Ubuntu designed specially for kids with Xfce window manager, looks really simple to use and suitable for small kids and integrated with many games will help the kid to improve his/her skills. Mathematical, typing, drawing, learning ABCs. will show you all that in the review.

Teachers are always on the lookout for educational software that can actually hold a child’s attention. Instead of cutting the kids loose on the Xbox, why not give GCompris a try?